I've finally arrived to my house in Beijing !!! After 6 hours and 20 minutes on the train from Hangzhou to Beijing, my host mother came to get me to the station.
we took around an hour to get to our neighborhood because we live in the north of Beijing and the station is in the south. Before coming home, we have been in a restaurant to eat dinner where you have some kind of an iron kettle surrounded by boiling water and you had to cook the meat and vegetables you had chosen.
The art of eating with chopsticks is not what I'm good at ....and my host mother was laughing watching me trying to catch the meat and putting it in a bowl with sauce .... so I told the waitress to bring me a fork
After dinner we went home and I was shocked about the entire amount of buildings that were changing colors constantly. My family lives in the neighborhood of Bird's Nest, where the Olympic Games were made and the truth is that is pretty cool. When we finally got home, the father, Steven (the child ) and the lady who cook who also lives in the house,were waiting. The took me to see my room and what can i say? .... .WOWWWW !!! I imagined it would be big but not twice the size of my room in Spain, with a giant bed, many closets and incredible views. Also I have a kind of chair that i will surely use to read and nap !!! what I can say about the kid? I love Steven, is a super kind friendly, and smart and always smiles. I started to talk and play with him and we got along very fast.
The next day in the morning .... breakfast time. This will be my big problem here and in all countries I go. In Spain,we usually eat sweet things at breakfast time or at least drink coffee with milk and sugar .... but here you drink soup , eat rice, vegetables , meat .... lol but my family was kind enough to make a kind of sweet bread ...it tasted great . They kept looking at me and laugh because I'm terrible with chopsticks so again ... I asked .... (I will not leave here without eating with chopsticks with no problems ) After breakfast Tina, my host mother told me it was time to rest and to be honest...i really needed ... I fell asleep in 2 minutes. At lunchtime was rather more simple, like soup and I was a bark that did not stop eating species. Then Steven He went to drama classes with her mom and I went back to sleep .... lol When they went back, we went to the park and I had a great time with steven. I pass an hour running behind Steven riding a bicycle and playing.There were some children quite heavy in the park that kept bothering Steven and talk to me .... but of course i didn't understand a word .The mother told them I was from Spain (the only thing I understood) and it was worse because they began to talk even more ... lol.
We went up for dinner and was something similar to the food. I have to say I understand now why you 4 or 5 dishes on a menu in Chinese restaurants. They always eat 3 or 4 different things and the good thing is that is easier that you like something. Then I played with Steven and has already learned 3 colors in Spanish. I just love it .... Finally my first day here has been pretty good and I have a very good feeling with my family. i know that these 6 months will be fantastic
